This stems from my last post. Usually my pet peeve posts are
supposed to be a bit of a laugh, but last week’s marinated and gave me more
material. This whole social media thing is starting to get to me. We’ve all
read it before, about how ‘fake’ people are and how they don’t portray their
‘real’ lives through social media, but I might have a slightly different, less
aggressive angle.
So yes,
I do have social media accounts. I use them to share what I think are interesting
videos or articles, post pictures about what is going on in my life, get my
blog out there, tweet funny-ish things that I think about or that happen to me.
Now that sounds like a lot, but All of that might take up 30 minutes and that
will be one week of usage for me. The problem is the long stretches people log
in for, at inopportune moments, not only for them, but for who they are around.
And why do they have such a compulsion?
The
importance of self-marketing through
social media is quite frankly, a fallacy. This belief that we need people to
think we are living this grand lifestyle is erroneous. The countless check-ins,
the constant updates, the picture perfect materialism, the elitist eating
habits. Why? For followers and likes? Is that how you measure your self-worth?
The
title of this post is What’s More
Important; Reputation or Truth? How do you define your self-worth? Self-worth has nothing to do with the
perception of others. It has
everything to do with how you view
yourself and what you are content
with being. So what is more important? Reputation? How others view your life
from the outside, judging only by what’s on the surface. Or truth? Who you
really are, what you really do, how you reason, how you feel. Sadly, as I sit
back and observe, I see reputation and truth blurring. People aren’t even aware
that what they post isn’t even for them, it’s for whoever sees, to judge, to
accept, to condemn. Do YOU, don’t do
THEM.
What’s
More Important; Reputation or Truth?
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